Jump on the festival bandwagon…
What is it about bands making comebacks at festivals this year? And I’m not referring to really great classic bands, who are perhaps only appearing at festivals – mainly because they’re too old to do a full tour – like The Who did a couple of years ago. Or like REM seem to have been doing for the last few years. No these are the mid-90s indie kids whose days are long past and yet who seem determined to hang onto the last vestiges of their career by showing up at Glastonbury, Leeds/Reading and T in the Park.
Don’t get me wrong; I love a bit of nostalgia as much as the next person, and I happen to be very excited that Pulp are playing at T in the Park this year (the one festival I’m attending). But Pulp were and probably still are a great band. I’m talking about the ranks of Britpop mediocrity that seem to have been in some sort of musical limbo for the last fifteen years. Maybe they’ve been selling used cars in Lebanon or ’finding themselves'in India…
Reading the line up for some of this year’s summer festivals, you’d be forgiven for thinking you’d gone back in time to 1995. Cast, Ocean Colour Scene, Weezer, Shed Seven, even Big Country are all playing T this year. Hell, Big Country doesn’t even have a lead singer any more after Stuart Adamson’s tragic suicide in 2001. But they’ll probably get a great reception in Scotland as they’re local boys. I’m not sure what the kids of today will make of Cast…
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